Well, I strongly believe in free share of information, including software. I think piracy is hard to combat, since sharing is on certain people's foundations. However, I really hate people that take advantage on piracy, like those who sell pirated CDs. Torrents share without taking lucrative advantage.

The other argument is that I can barely afford anything. I suppose their target audience is first world photographers with good first world salaries, and that just doesn't fit in my description.

Well, I strongly believe in free share of information, including software. I think piracy is hard to combat, since sharing is on certain people's foundations. However, I really hate people that take advantage on piracy, like those who sell pirated CDs. Torrents share without taking lucrative advantage.

The other argument is that I can barely afford anything. I suppose their target audience is first world photographers with good first world salaries, and that just doesn't fit in my description.

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There will always be pirates somewhere but the scary part is when software/movie/music stealing becomes ok. Just becouse no one sees what ur doing does not make it right, right? And LR4 isnt that expensive. If you want the free stuff, go for gimp or CS2... /The moral police

Well, I strongly believe in free share of information, including software. I think piracy is hard to combat, since sharing is on certain people's foundations. However, I really hate people that take advantage on piracy, like those who sell pirated CDs. Torrents share without taking lucrative advantage.

The other argument is that I can barely afford anything. I suppose their target audience is first world photographers with good first world salaries, and that just doesn't fit in my description.

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Perhaps these piracy issues have contributed to Adobe's decision to completely pull out of producing and distributing hard copies of their software and are instead going to a subscription only online basis for their products which will involve ongoing monthly costs
Perhaps it is those who begrudge paying a company for their development costs and wage bills who have led us to a position where I and others will not now be able to go and buy a very affordable software package as a one off purchase that we can use for years !
I for one cannot afford or indeed justify a monthly subscription to an Adobe product so I will not be using them but I cannot blame the company for going this way
Think on !
Rob

Well, I strongly believe in free share of information, including software. I think piracy is hard to combat, since sharing is on certain people's foundations. However, I really hate people that take advantage on piracy, like those who sell pirated CDs. Torrents share without taking lucrative advantage.

The other argument is that I can barely afford anything. I suppose their target audience is first world photographers with good first world salaries, and that just doesn't fit in my description.

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If that's the case you should probably use some freeware tools that suits your needs.